Depression

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) To Break Negative Thought Cycles

How it works: CBT helps clients identify and reframe self-defeating thoughts and beliefs (e.g., “I’m a failure”).

Why it’s effective: CBT addresses the root causes of negative thinking cycles and belief systems that can lead us into depression and maintain depression over the long term. Research finds that 50-75% of patients see significant improvement within 15-20 sessions in their depression symptoms with CBT (APA, 2022).

GearingUP’s edge: GearingUP’s clinicians have been trained by some of the foremost experts in CBT in the world including Dr. Judith Beck, the daughter of Dr. Aaron Beck who originally developed CBT. We have studied the most effective methods of employing CBT to address depression as developed by world experts.

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Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) To Regain Emotional Regulation

How it works: DBT uses a set curriculum of research proven skills to help clients emotionally regulate and address their negative thoughts and emotions proactively.

Why it’s effective: DBT’s proven skills have been show to effectively address emotional dysregulation by interrupting behavioral patterns and teaching clients how to manage their own emotional regulation for years to come.

GearingUP’s edge: GearingUP is one of the most extensively trained DBT clinics in the country having completed training with Dr. Marsha Linehan’s (the founder of DBT) Behavioral Tech institute as well as many other world experts such as Dr. Lane Pederson, Dr. Melanie Harned, and Dr. Francheska Perepletchikova.

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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for Developing Mental Flexibility

How it works: ACT teaches clients skills for clarifying what is truly important to them, what they can be flexible with, and how to achieve what’s necessary for their goals.

Why it’s effective: By reducing certain behaviors and issues like cognitive fusion (over-identifying with negative thoughts), clients are able to move past the thoughts, emotions, and beliefs holding them back from pursuing committed, value-driven actions towards their goals.

GearingUP’s edge: GearingUP helps clients maximize their ACT therapy through increased focus on Mindfulness and acceptance skills to build resilience and improve emotional well-being for years to come.

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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) For Resolving Trauma That May Cause Depression

How it works: While EMDR is often used to trauma treatment, it can be helpful with addressing depression that may be influenced or caused by unresolved trauma.

Why it’s effective: EMDR helps clients processed unresolved traumatic memories, reduce emotional intensity, and restructure their negative beliefs and thoughts.

GearingUP’s edge: EMDR is often considered a short term therapy, but it can be a powerful tool in a treatment plan. GearingUP offers a wide suite of therapies in addition to EMDR, and our expert clinicians understand how to use EMDR in the course of treatment to provide powerful results in your therapy journey.

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Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) To Address Emotional Roots of Depression

How it works: EFT teaches clients how to recognize, tolerate, and work through painful emotions. Unaddressed maladaptive emotions (such as shame, abandonment, etc.) could be at the heart of depression.

Why it’s effective: EFT equips clients with tools to understand their emotions, transform their negativity into positive experiences, and strengthen attachment and emotional experiences with those around them.

GearingUP’s edge: GearingUP’s clinical team understands the deep role emotions can play in our lives, and many members of our clinical staff have trained directly with Dr. Sue Johnson, one of the founders of EFT. We understand when clients would experience the best results with EFT or other emotion focused therapies like DBT and when to use EFT for the best results.

Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) For Breaking Cycles of Depression

How it works: MBCT teaches clients how to break cycles of thinking and rumination that often lead to depression or relapse back into depression without getting caught in these thinking cycles.

Why it’s effective: By cultivating mindfulness skills and decentralizing techniques, clients are able to observe their thoughts and emotions as temporary phenomena that arise and pass without dwelling on the past or future.

GearingUP’s edge: GearingUP’s clinical team has completed extensive training with multiple world experts in Mindfulness and Cognitive Therapy. We offer many different forms of Mindfulness based therapies and know what techniques are often most effective in the course of MBCT therapy.

Mindfulness Training and Therapy Relieves Depression with Non-Judgmental Awareness

How it works: Mindfulness teaches clients how to interact with their thoughts, emotions, bodies, and more to increase their present moment awareness and break the cycles of thinking and beliefs that can lead to depression.

Why it’s effective: By promoting accurate clear-sightedness, non-judgmental investigation, and full awareness, clients are able to create more mental and emotional space and cultivate more positive experiences within themselves and with others.

GearingUP’s edge: Mindfulness is a foundational skill for all of GearingUP’s therapy offerings, and our clinical staff have completed in-depth trainings with many world experts in Mindfulness to learn how to best understand and use mindfulness to find relief and create the life they envision for themselves.

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